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VOL. XXIV.-NO. 38.
BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1889.
SUBSCRIPTION: S1.00 Per Year.
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NATIONAL WELFARE.
Contonnial Sarmon Doliverod by
Rev. T. DoWitt Talmage.
A Hundred Vears or Dlvino GiilHnrit Tio.
viewed The De.tlny ot Our Natlou
Not the Work of Maa
tiod U With
The following sermon, apropos to tbe
Centennial occasion, was delivered by
Itev. T. DdWilt Talinage at the Brooklyn
-Tabernacle. Ilia text was:
And the Lord opened the eyes of the younji
nam: nnd ho saw; and, behold, the mountain
wn full of horses and chariots of tire round
about KlNho, II. Kincr?, vi., 17.
As it cost England many regiments and
two million dollars a year to keep safely
a troublesome captive at St. Helena, so
the Kin? of Hyria sends uut a whole army
to capture one. minister of religion per
haps fifty thousand raoa to take, Elisha.
During tho night the army of Assyrians
came round tho villago of Dothan, where
the prophet was staying. At early day
break the man servant of Elisha rushed
in and said:
"What shall we do? There is a wholo
mriny como to destroy you. We must dij,
we must die."
But Elisha was not seared a bit, for he
looked U!) nnd saw tho mountains all
around full of supernatural forotss, and
he knew that if there were fifty tbjousand
Assyrians against him thero wrere one
hundred thousand anguLs for him; and in
answer to the urophel's prayer in behalf
of his affrighted man ncrvant, the young
man saw it, too. Horses of fire harnessed
to chariots o? fire, and drivers of fire pull
ing reins of fire on In a of fire, and war
riors of fire brandished swords of fire;
siud tho brilliance of that morning sun
rise, was eclipsed by the galloping splen
dors of thn celestial cavab-ade.
And the Lord opened the eyes of thn younn
rna-i; an J ho s.iw; mul, bi-hold, the mountain,
wus full of hurscs and chariots of Oro routrj
uhout Llisha.
I have often spoken to you of tho A ssy
l iau perils which threaten our Anir-rican
institutions, but now, as wo ore Assem
bling to keep centennial celebration of
the inaugural ton of Wu.sUiugtou, I speak
of the upper forces "f tlio text hat are to
fight on our si le. if all the luw levels are
tilled with armd thre.its, I have to tell
you that the. mountains of 'our hope und
courage and fa'lh are fu 'I of the, horso
and chariots of Divine rescue,
Yo:i will notice that 'ho Divine equipage
is always represent , a, u c?iaTri.t of fire.
E.ekieleud lau.'j w when they
como to desci-ih u;virte equipage, al
ways represent u a, a w),,., a har.
nesso 1, an upholstered conflagration. It
is not a 'ftariot like Kings and sonqnerors
of ,,,r.(h ju.iuut, but an organized aud
r".".ipreed fire. That means purity,
listice, chastisement, d-.diveranee through
burning escapes. Chariot of rescue? yes,
but. chariot of lire. All our national dis-eiithrallment.-t
havi? been through scorch
ing agonies and red disasters. Through
tribulation the individual rises. Through
tribulat ion nations rise. Chariots of res
cue, but chariots of lire.
Hut how do I know that thi Divine
equipage is on the side of our institutions?
1 know it by tho history ot the last one
hundred and eight years. The American
Revolution st tried from tho pon of Johu
Hancock in Independence Hall in 1770.
The colonic, without ships, without am
munition, without guns, without trained
warriors, 'wiUiout mouey, without
preutige. On the other side the mightiest
iiatioiv on earth, tfiu largest armies, and
th-s grandest navies, and the most dis
tinguished commanders, and resources
inexhaustible, and nearly all nations
Toady to back them up in the light, Noth
ing as against immensity.
The cause of the American colonies,
which started at a. to, dropped istiil lower
through the quarreling of tho Generals,
and through tho jealousies at small suc
cesses, aud through, th winters which
surpassed all pred -cessors in depth of
suoir and horror f concealment, Elisha,
unrrouuded by tile whole Assyrian army,
l:d not seem t bo worso off than did the
thirteen colnui'i.s cuoompasscd and over
(shadowed by foreign assault. Vhat de
cide 1 the contest in our favor? The up
jper forces, tho upper armies. Th Green
aiud White mountains of New England,
1he highlands along the Hudson, the
mountains of Virginia, all tho Appala
chinn ranges were full of re-enforcements
which tho young m:n Washington saw
by faith; and his men endured the fro&en
feet, uud the gangrened wounds, aud
tho pxhau-sliuf hunger, and the long
march, because
The Lord opened the ryes of the young man;
nd he av; and. tehotd, the mountain were
full of horses iiud ch;i. iots of tiro roundabout
tush a.
Washington himself was a miracle.
XV hat Joshua was in sacred history the
first American 1'resideut was in secular
history. A thousand other men excelod
him in different, tilings, but he exceled
hem all i i roun Iness and completeness
of character. '1'hu world never saw his
like, and prolibly never will see his like
Again, because there probalily never will
be nuo'.ner sueh exigtMicy. He was lot
ilown a Irvine interposition. H was
(Win ( iod direct.
I do not In v how any man can read
the history of thoso timM without admit
ting that the contest was decided by the
tipper fore .
Then in IMil, when our civil war opened,
many at the North and at the South pro
nounced it National suicide. It was not
courage ngsinst cowardic-j, it was not
wealth against poverty, it was not large
States against s;nall States. It was hero
ism against heroism, it was the resources
of many generations against tlie resources
of gcuerntions, it was tho prayer of the
North a ;ainst the prayer of the South, it
was one-half of the Nation in armed
wrath meeting the other half of tho Na
tion in armed indignation. What could
iouio but extermination?
At tho ctpeiiiug of :he war the Cow-matider-ln-Chlcf
of the United States
forces was a man who had been great in
battles, but old age had come with many
lulimities, nud he h d a right of quietude.
He could not mount a horse, and he rode
u the battle-field ia a carriage, asking
the driver not to jolt it too much. During
the most of the four years of the contest
on the Southern side was a man in mid
life, who had in his veins the blood of the
heroes of Cherubusco and Cerro Gor
do, Contieras and Chepultapee. As the
years passed on and the scroll of tho car
nage uurqlled, there came out on both
sides a heroism nud a strength aud a de
termination that the world had never
marshaled. And what but extermination
could come whnn l'hillip Sheridan and
tstonewall Jackson mot, and Nathaniel
Lyon Sydney Johnston rode in from
North and South, and Grant and Iee, the
two thunderbolts of battle, clashed? Yet
we are a Nation, and yet we are at peace.
Earthly courage did u"t decide the con
flict. The upr forces of the text. They
tell iik 'there . a a battle fought above
the clouds on Lookout mountain; but
there was something higher than that.
Again, the horses and chariots of God
came to tho ree 10 of this Nati m ia 1S76,
at the close of a presidential election
famous for devilish ferocity. A darker
'""cloui yet fettled dowu upon t!iis Nation.
The result of the election was ia dispute,
the revolution, not between two or thre
eecttous.but revolatiou in every town and
village and city of lo United States
geeiueil im;nent. Ttie pru.-peet was that
jsew Vol k would throttle ie-York, and
'eW Orleans would grip New Oi leaus, and
liorttnil. Hi atou, and Savannah, Savannah,
and Washington, Washington. Some said
Mr. Tildeu was elected; others said Mr.
Hayes was ejected; uud how near we
came to universal massacre some oi U9
guessed, but God only knew. I ascribe
our escape not to the honesty and right
eousness of infuriated politicians, but I
ascribe it to the upper forces of the text.
Chariots of mercy rolled in, and, though
the wheels were not heard aud the flash
was not seen, yet all through the mount
ains of the North, and the South, and the
East, and the West, though the hoofs did
not clatter, the cavalry of God galloped
by. I tell you, God is the friend of this
Nation. In the awful excitement at the
massacro of Lincoln, whoa there was a
prospect that greater slaughter would
open upon this Nation, God hushed the
tempest. In the awful excitement at the
time of Garneid's assassination God put
His foot on the neck of the cyclouei
" To prove that God is on the sid of this
Nation, I argue from the last eight or nine
great national harvests, and from the
national health of the last quarter of a
century, epidemic very exceptional, and
from the great revivals of religion, and
from the spreading of the church of God,
and fro,tt the continent blossoming with
asylums and reformatory institutions,
andfr-oni an Edenization which promises
thi the whole laud is to be a paradise
wtiore God shall walk in the cool of the
Vay.
If in other sermons I showed you what
was the evil that threatened to upset and
demolish American institutions, 1 am en
couraged more thau I can tell you as I see
the regiments wheeling down the eky,
and my jeremiads turn into doxologies,
and that which was the Good Friday tif
the Nation's crucifixion. Of course God
works through human instrumentalities,
aud this national betterment is to come
among other things through a scrutinized
ballot-box. Ly tho law of registration it
is almost impossible now to have illegal
voting. There was a time yon and I re
member it very well when droves of
vagabonds wandered up and down on
election day, and from yoll to poll, and
Voted here, aud voted thare, and
voted everywhere, and there Was
no ehallenge; or, tf there were,
it amounted to nothingv because
nothing could so suddenly be proved up
on the vagabonds. Now, la every well
organized neighborhood, every voter is
watched w ith teverest scrutiny. I must
tell the registrar my name, and how ld
I am, and how lng I have reeiddd in the
State, and. 'llOW long I haVe resided iu the
ward; 0r the township, aud if I misrep
rrieut fify witnesses will rise and shut
me mU from the ballot-box. Is not that
a-great advance? Aud then notic? the
law that prohibits a man voting if he has
bet on the election. A step further needs
to be takeu, and that man forbidden a
vote who has offered or taken a bribe,
whether it bo in the shape of a free drink
or cash paid down, the suspicious cAses
obliged to put their hand on the Bible and
swear their vote in if they vote at all. So
through the sacred chest of our Nation's
suffrage redemption will come.
God also will save this Nation through
an aroused moral sentiment. There has
never .?en so irt-teh discussion of morals
and immoi-Ms. Men, whether or not they
acknowledge what is right, have to think
what is right. We have men who have
bad their bauds iu the public treasury the
most of their lifetime, stealing all they
could lay their handa on. discoursing elo
quently about dishonesty In public serr
auts, aud Imenl with two or three families
ot their own preaching eloquently about
the beauties of tho seventh command
ment. The question of sobriety and drunk
onness is thrust iu the face of this Nation
as never before, and to tAke a part In our
political contests. The question fully
and deferentially heard at tb.6 bar
of every Legislature and every
House of Uepre.sf tati ves and every
United States He nale, and an O innipotent
Voice will ring down the sky and across
this land nud back again, saying to these
rising tides of drnnkenuess which
threaten to whelm home and church aud
Nation: "Thus far shalt thou come, but
no further, and hero shall thy proud
waves be stayed."
I have not in my mlud a shadow of. dis--hearteumeut
as largo as the shadow of a
housefly's wing My faith is a the upper
forces, the tipper ari'Vles of the text. God
is not dead. The chariots are not un
wheeled. If you would only pray more
and wash your eyes iu the cool, bright
water fresh from the well of Christian. r
forru, it would be said -f yo!l, as of this
one of tho text "The Lord opened the
eyes of th yOungmau; nnd he saw; and,
lchold, the mountain was full of horses
and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
When the army of Antigonus went into
battle his soldiers were very much dis
couraged, and they rushed up to the Gen
eral and said to him: '"Dou't you see we
have a few forces and they havo ho niats.y
more?" and the soldiers were affrighted
at the Muall uess of their number and the
greatness of the enemy. Antigouus, their
commander, straightened himself up and
said, wiih indignation and vehemence:
"How many do you reckon me to be?"
And when we see the vast armies prrayed
against the cause of sobriety- it may
sometimes bo very discouraging, but I
ask you, in making up your estimate of
the forces of righteousuess I ask you
llow many do you reckon the Lord God
Almighty to be? He is our commander.
The Lord of Hosts is His name. I have
the best authority for sayhig that the
chariots of God are twenty thousand, and
the mountains are full of them.
You will take without my saying it that
my only faith is in Christianity and in the
upper forces suggested in the text. Polit
ical parties come and go, and they may be
ritfht and they may be wrong; but God
lives, and I think He has ordained this
Nation for a career of prosperity that no
domngogism will be able to halt. I expect
to live to see a political party which
will have a platform of two planks
the Ten Coinmaudments and tho Ser
mon on the Mount. When that party is
formed it will sweep across this laud like
a tornado, I was going to say, but when I
tlrink it is not to be devastation, but re
suscitation, I change the figure aud say
such a party us tl-at will sweep across
this laud like spice gales from Heaven.
Have you any doubt about the need of
the Christian religion to purify aud make
decent Americau polities? At every year
ly or quadrennial election we have iu this
country groat manufactories, manu
factories of lies, aud they are run day
and night, and they turn out half a dozen
a day all eq nipped and ready for sailing.
Large lies nnd small li?s. Lies private
and lies public and lies prurient. Lies
cut bias mid. lies oat diagonal. Ixmg
limbed lies and lies w ith double-back ac
tion. Lies complimentary and lies defam
atory. Lies that some people believe,
and lies that all the people believe, and
lies that nobody believes. Lies with
humps like camels and scales like croco
diles and necks as long as storks and feet
as swift as an antelope's and stings like
adders. Lies raw and scalloped and
panned and stewed. Crawling lios and
jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies
with aitachment screws and rufSers
and braiders and rea.ry-wound bobbies.
Lies by Christian people who never lie
except during elections, and lies by peo
ple who always lie, but beat themselves
iu a presidential campaign.
Nothiug but Christi anit-will ever stop
such a tiood of indecency. The Christian
religion will epeak after awhile. The
billingsgate and low scandal through
which we wade every year or every four
years must be re? uked by that religion
which speaks from iis two great mount
ains, from the one mountain intoning tho
command: "Thou shalt not boar false
witness against thy neighbor," and from
the other mount raakiug plea for kind
ness, aud love, and blessing, rather than
cursing. Yes, we are going .o b-ve a na
tional religion.
Ther are two kinds of national relig
ion. The one 19 supported by tho State,
and is a matter of buman politics.and it has
great patronage, and under it men will
strugglo for prominence without refer
ence to qualifications, and its Archbishop
is supported bj a salary of seventy-five
thousand dollars a year, and there are
great cathedrals, with all the machinery
of mnsic and canonicals, and room foi
one thousand people, yet an audience ol
fifty people, or twenty people, or ten, or
two
We want no such religion as that, no
such national religion; but we want this
kind of national religion the vast ma
jority of the people converted and evan
gelized, and then they will manage the
secular as well as the religious.
Do you say that this is impracticable?
No. The time is coming just as certainly
as there is a God and that this is His book
and that He has the strength and the hon
estly to fulfill His promises. One of the
ancient Emperors used to pride himself
on performing that Which his counselors
said was impossible, and I have to tell
you to-day that man's impossibilities are
God's easies "Hath He said and shall
He not do it? Hath He commanded and
will He not bring it to pass?" The Chris
tian religion is coming to take possession
of every ballot-box, of every school
house, of every home, of every valley, of
every mountain, of every acre of oui
national domain This Nation, notwith
standing all the evil influences that art
trylilg to destroy it, is going to live.
Never since, according to John Milton,
when Satan was
Hurled hendlong flaming from the ethereal sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion, dawn
To bottomless perdition
Have the powers of darkness been so de
termined to win this continent as they are
now:. What a 3eel it is a jewel carved
in relief the cameo of this planet On
one side of us the Atlantic ocean, divid
ing us from the workout governments of
Europe. On the other side, the Pacific
66ean, dividing us from the superstitions
of Asia. On the north of us the Arctic
sea, which is the gymnasium ia which the
explorers and navigators developed their
courage. A. continent ten thousand five
hundred miles long, seventeen million
square miles, nd all of it, but about
one-seventh, capable of rich cultivation.
One hundred millions of ppulation on
this continent of North and flouth Amer
ica one hundred million, awl room for
many hundred millions more. All flora
and all fauna, all metals and all precious
woods, and all grains and ail fritits. The
Appalachian range the backbone, and
the fivers the ganglia carrying life all
through and out to tha extremities. Isth
mus of Darien, the narrow waist 6f a giant
continent all t6 be under, one govern
ment, and all free, and all Christian, and
the scene of Christ's personal reign on
earth If, according to the expecta
tion 'c many good people, He shall
at last set up His throne in this
world. AVho shall have this hemis
phere, Christ or Satan? AVho shall have
the shores of her inland seas, the silver
of her Nevadas, the gold of her Colorado 3,
the telescopes of her observatories, the
brain of her universities, the wheat of
ber rralrtes, the rice of her savannahs,
the two great ocean " beaches the one
eachingvrom Baffin's bay to Terra dl
Fuego, and the other from . Bearing
rstraits to Cape Horn and all the moral
and temporal and spiritual and everlast
i interests of a population vast beyond
all human computation? Who shall havo
the hemisphere? You and I will decide
that, or help to decide it, by conscientious
Vote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance
it Christian institutions, by support of
great philanthropies, by putting body,
mind and soul on the right side of all
moral, religious and national move
ments. Ah! it will not be long before it will
not make any difference to you or to me
what becomes of this continent, sd far a
earthly con-'ort is Concerned. AH we will
Want of it will be seven feet by three, and
that , will tdke in the largest, and there
will be room and to spare. That is all of
this country we will need very soon the
youngest of us. But we have an anxiety
about the welfare and the happiness of
the generations that are coming on, and
it will be ft ffrtind thing if, when the arch
cgil's trumpet sounds, we find that our
sepulcher, like the one Joseph of Arima
thea provided for Christ, is in the midst
of a garden.
One of the'seven wonders of the world
was the white marble watch tower of
Tharos of Egypt. Sostratus the architect
and sculptor, after building that watch
tower cut his name on i. Then te feover
it with plastering, and to please the
Rit he put the monarch's name on the
...side of the plastering; and the storms
beat and the seas dashed in their fury,
and they washed off the plastering, and
and they washed it out ahd
they washed it down, but the name of So
stratus was deep cut in the imperishable
roi'S.. So across tho face ot this Nation
there have been a great many names
written, across our finances, across our
religions, names worthy of remembrance,
names written on the architecture of our
churches, and our schools, ahd our asy
lums, and oar homes of mercy nut God
is the architect of this bontinent, aud He
was the sculptor of all its grandeurs, and
lonjtf aftef, through the wash of the ages
ftnd the tempests of centuries, all other
names shall be obliterated, the Divine
signature and the Divine name will be
brighter and brighter as the millenniums
go by, and the world shall see that the
God who made this continent has re
deemed it by His grace from all its sor
rows and from all its crimes-.
Have you faith in such a thin as that?
After all the chariots have been unwheel
ed, and eftr all thi war chargers have
been crippled, the chariots which Elisha
saw on the morning of his peril will roll
on in triumph, followed by all the armies
of Heaven on white horses-. God could do
it, wit-hout us, but He will not- The weak
est of us, the faintest of u, the smallest
brained of us, shall have a part in the
triumph. We may not have ohf iiame, like
Sostratus, cut in imperishable rock and
conspicuous for centuries, but we shall be
remembered in a better place than that,
even in the heart of Him who came to re
deem ns and redeem the world, and onr
names wiH be seen close to the signature of
His wound, for as to-day lie throws out
His arms toward us, He says: "Bihold, I
have graven thee on the palms of my
hand." By the mightiest of all agencies,
the potency of the prayer, 1 beg you seek
our national welfare.
Some time ago there were four mUlloa
six hundred thousand letters in the Dead
Letter Post-Office at Washington letters
that lost their way but not one prayer
ever directed to the heart of God mis
carried. The way is all clear for the as
cent of your supplications heavenward in
behalf of the Nation. Before the postal
communication was so easy, and long
ago, on a rock one hundred feet high, on
the coast of England, there was a barrel
fastened to a post, and in great letters on
the side of the rok, so it could be seen
far out at sea, were th words "Post
Offlce;" and when ships came by a
boat put out to take and fetch
letters. And so sacred were those
deposits of affection in that barrel that
no lock was ever put upon that barrel, al
though it contained messages for Anieica,
and Europe, and Asia, and Africa, and all
the islands of the sea. Many a storm
tossed sailor, homesick, got message of
kindness by that rock, and many 1 h me
stead heard good news from a boy long
gone. Would that all the heights of otr
national prosperity were in interchange
of sympathies prayers going up meetii g
blessings coming down; postal celestial,
not by a storm-struck rock oa a wintij
coast, but by the Ick of Ages,
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
Mrs. LAJroTirr has engaged the Gaiety
Theater, Berlin, for the month of Octo
ber. Hon. Wm. H. Barnum, chairman of tho
National Democratic committee, died at
Lime Hock, near New Haven, Conn., on
the 30th.
An examination of the pension rolls ai
Washington discloses the fact that there
are 858 pensioners drawing pensions for
total blindness.
Count Herbert Bismarck gave a din
ner to the Samoan Commissioners and
the members of the American and British
legations on the 3d.
Postmaster B. S. Jamison of Ash
bourne, Pa., shot and killed a burglar
who was trying to break into the post
office on the 2-tbt
La France says that the French Gov
ernment intends to postpone tho general
election for members of the Chamber of
Deputies until the spring of 1890.
The report that the North German
Lloyds steamer Weser had arrived at
Bremen with yellow fever on board,
proves to have been entirely without
foundation.
Ben J. Law, a convict in the Jefferson
ville (Ind.) penitentiary, has fallen heir
to f75,000. He has almost ten years to
serve. Ho has three relatives in the same
institution;
CarL itoSA, the famous opera-singer,
died in London, on the 30th of peritonitis.
Mr. Augustus Harris, manager of Covent
Garden, was summoned and was present
when Mr. Rosa died.
King MalIetoa of Samoa, who was
made a prisoner by the German authori
ties, has apologized for the action which
led to his arrest, and the Emperor has de
cided that he be liberated.
Lord Lonsdale left San Francisco, on
the 29th, for the East to meet Lady Lons
dale on her arrival from London. He will
stop at Victoria, British Columbia, one
day, and then go to Winnipeg.
Dr. Harke, of Hamburg, Germany, a
Lieutenant of the reserves, has been sen
tenced by a military court to three days
imprisbntnent in a fortress for challeng
ing Dr. Natthold, a lawyer, to fight a duel;
tOMMANbER-IN-CHIEF WARNER of the
brand Army of the Republic was ban
queted by the Department of T.hode
Island, on the 2d, and several hundrod of
the most prominent men in the State were
presented to him.
Mrs. Kinneher was expeled, recently,
from the Presbyterian church at Rock
ford, 111., for worshipping a false Christ..
Mrs. Kinneher believes that Rev. S. J.
Schweinforth, leader of the Beekmanitea,
is Christ.
Mr. Bates, Samoan Commissioner, and
Lieutenant Parker were not permitted to
enter the exhibition opened by the Em
peror of Germany, in Berlin, on the SOthj
MecauJe they w Or frdek coats instoad of
rlress coats';
The Swiss Government ha3 issued an
'order of expulsion from the country of
Herr Lutz, an accomplice of Herr
Wohlgemuth, the Mulhouse police in
spector who was recently expeled for
bribing a Swiss.
Dr. Charlton, of Columbus, O., editor
of the Mason's Chronicle, the American
Odd-Fellow and the Knight; of Pythias,
dropped dead, on the 1st, of heart dis
ease, from which he had been a constant
6ufferer for the past year.
NeWs has been received that the brig
antine Addie Benson, which sailed from
Halifax; K. S., for tuba in January; and
had been given up as lost, was wrecked
bff Venezuela, and her crew rescued by a
par.sing vessel and carried to Norway.
McSwiny's "four hundred" held their
centennial banquet at Delmonico's, New
York City, on the 30th. Toasts were re
sponded to by Mayor Cleveland of Jersey
Citv, Mayor Gleason of Long Island City,
Bishop Farrell of Trenton and others.
Captain Allan, of Brooklyn, has re
turned home from Canada, having failed
to obtain from the Dominion Government
any settlement of his claim for tbe illegal
heizure and detention of his ship by the:
collector Of customs at Shelburne in 1887:
Ex-President Hayes and the Ohio
centennial commissioners and their ladies
were entertained at dinner, on the 1st, by
Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell, of New York City,
and a reception was held at which a large
number of resident Ohioans were present.
The Massachusetts House of Repre
sentatives, on the 3d, passed to be en
grossed the Senate bill providing that
safe deposit, loan and trust companies of
that State shall not inve.t in farrrt rttcrt
gages on land "utsido of New England
and New York.
The five-masted schooner Governor
Ames, the largest schooner afloat, sailed
from Portland, Me., on the 30th, having
on board 1,800,0'JO feet of spruce and pine
lumber, valued at $2!,003. This is th
largest cargo, with perhaps, one excep
tion, ever taken by a schooner.
Ths contest over the $12,000,000 estate
nf the late B. B. Hotehkiss, inventor of
the Hotchkis Riiri, began at New Haven,
Cortu-., on the 3d. On e-half the enormous
amount involved hangs upon the ques
tion of legal domicile, being claimed
severally by French and American heirs.
The New York Bar Association ten
dered a reception, on the 1st, to the Jus
tices of the United States Supreme Court,
a distinguished array of l-g l celebrities
being presfrt,. including lihief-Jufitic
Fuller and Justices Blatchford, Field and
Strong (re tired), aud Ex-President Cleve
land. The jury in the Hawes murder case, at
Birmingham, Ala., on the 3d. returned a
verdict of guilty, and fixed the penalty at
death. Hawes was calm, and said he
was sure of conviction in that runty-.
The Supreme Ccurt tfiil probably, on ap
peal, grant a change of venue and a new
trial.
Jos. Sutton, aged fifty-five, and An
drew Lawson, aged frty, wHiie return
ing hiDi t3 Vernon Center, Conn., from
Manchester, on the night of the 29th,
drove from the road down a i-teep bank
and over into a mill pond. Both men ahd
the horse were drowned. Both men leave
families.
Mr. ft. T. Reid, Q. C, is lecturing in
London on his plan for the better honsing
of the poor. He wants to give the County
Council the power to build dwellings for
100,000 people iu different parts of Lou
den, and to raise the money lor the pur
pose by a tax of one penny to the pound
on all rents.
On the 2Sth a train on the Grand Trunk
railway was wrecked near Hamilton,
Ont., and a score of people were killed
and many were wounded. The train was
filled with passengers from the North
western States, and most of them were
on their way to the New York Centennial
celebration.
The American delegates to the Samoat
Conference in Berlin have been so pes
tered by the importunities of German re
porters and American correspondents
that they have been coinpeled to ref usf
admittance to all callers except those per
sonally known, or who give satisfactorj
insurance that they are not iateryiiwers
PERSONAL. AND GENERAL.
General Boulanger has left the Hotel
Bristol, in London, and taken up his resi
dence in the house in Portland Place
which he leased a short time ago for six
months. - He had not intended to occupy
tho house so soon, but the managers of
the hotel insisted upon his changing iis
quarters.
Three men, Michael Flynn, Patrick
Ratchford and Martin Reagan were killed
by a fall of coal in the Hyde Park shaft at
Scranton, Pa., on the 1st.
A drunken man was picked up by the
New York City police at Grand street and
Bowery, on the 30th, and $1,971 was found
in his pocket. He was too drunk to give
his name, and was locked up.
Three persons were killed and eight
injured by an explosion in the Recklin
husenhaus colliery at Dortmuud, AVesU
phalia, on the 1st.
Herr Kolisch, the famous chess-player
of Vienna, died on the 30th.
E. S. Lacey, of Michigan, the new
Comptrdler of the Currency( took the
oath of office at the Treasury Departs
ment, on the 1st, and entered upon the
discharge of the duties of his position.
The reduction in the public debt, dur
ing the month of April, amounted to $13,
)87,231, and for the ten months of Hie cur
rent fiscal year to $00,979,228.
It is charged that two young men, i.ar
Somerset, Pa., on the 1st, hanged their
father and then shot their step-mother, in
order that they might secure possession
of their father's property.
The London Stock Exchange was closed,
on the 1st, owing to its being a semi
annual settling day at the Bank of Eq
gland. The greatest parade of the series that
has been held in New York in honor of
the Washington inaugural centennial
was the civic display on May 1, in which
eighty thousand men participated. The
States; the nationalities, the trades and
guilds were well represented. The whole
parade was one vast panorama of the his
tory and progress of our Nation for the
past century. President Harrison and
other distinguished citizens reviewed the
parade.
Postmaster Van Corr.of New York as
sumed the duties of his office on tho 1st.
The Butler Club of Boston, on the 1st,
celebrated by a banquet the twenty-sev-nth
anniversary of the occupation of
New Orleans. About seventy-five guest3
attended. General Butler spoke feeling
ingly of the honor done him, and paid a
glowing tribute to Admiral Farragutj by
whose co-operation and daring efforts the
victory of New Orleans was won.
Margaret Bresnahan, aged forty-five,
was struck and killed by a train at Law
rence, Mass., on the 1st.
Herren Richter and Rickart, on the
1st, protested against the summary dis
missal of the German Landtag.
Captain Murrell of the Missouri and
his officers and crew were banqueted in
Baltimore, Md., on the 1st, and presented
with medals in recognition of the rescue
of theDanmark's passengers. J. W. Gads
den, of Philadelphia, created a diversion
by presenting a check for $2,500, contri
buted in the latter city, the money to be
divided between the officers and crew,
with a promise of merit-medals to follow.
The British House of Commons, on the
1st, rejected the bill proposing to give to
urban lease-holders the power to purchase
leases."
Ths Plenary Congress, in session in
VieDna, adjourned, on the 2d, amid cheers
for the Pope and the E mperor.
The Comptroler of the Currency, on the
1st, declared a final dividend of 15 J per
cent, in favor of the National Bank of
Henrietta, Tex., which failed July 25, 1887.
The Erie canal was formally opened at
midnight of April 30, and eighty-two
boats cleared from Buffalo. This was a
much smaller number than usual.
On the 80th the Catholic congress
nrged the Vatican to support the move
ment making t6 dissuade people froni em
igrating to America and Australia: . ,
A grand reunion of veterans of all G:
A. R. posts in the vicinity of New York
City, was held, on the 1st, in honor of
Commander-in-Chief Warner.
Considerable excitement wa3 created
in Chicago, on Centennial Day, by an An
archist displaying a red flag from a win
dow. The emblem was torn down, and
the crowd had secured a rope to lynch the
man when he was saved by the police.
It is learned that a terrible riot recently
occurred at Guanajuata, capital of the
Mexican State Guanajuato, in which many
were killed and wounded. The regular
troops were called ont, and they fired into
the "ttiob until the ground was wet with
blood and Cdyered with dead and dying.
Aurelics Payne, sixty-twd years bid,
active as a kitten, took unto himself his
eighth wife at Ft. Wayne, Ind., on the 1st.
The last Mrs. Payne is twenty-seven.
Colonfl Chas. W. Wilder, died in
Boston, on the 2d, aged ninety years. He
was one of the oldest and best-known
tobacco merchants of Boston; had been
an alderman. Slate Senator and Quartermaster-General
of militia, and was a
prominent Mason and founder of the
Central Club;
During tho Whitsuntide recess Mr.
Gladstone expects to enjoy a yachting
cruise in the waters of Great Britain with
a party of friends.
The demand of the carpenters of
Quincy, Mass., for ten hours' pay for
nine hours work has been acceded to by
the master builders.
Father Boniface, chief of the Bava
rian African missionaries, and Sister
Benedicta?who were captured by the Arab
Oushiri drld afterward released, are at
Augsburg, Bavaria. Tho latter has re
entered the conveut, and will not return
to missionary labors, but Father Boniface
will, after securing recruits, return to
Africa and continue his work.
The Dominion Parliament was pro
rogued, on tbe 2d, by Lord Stanley, Governor-General,
after a session of over
three months; which was in many respects
Xrxe of the mdst important of the present
rarliamertii ,
Returns of the commerce of the uez
canal show that seventy-eight per cent,
of the ships passing through the canal are
British.
The dynamite factory at Odell, near
Hastings, N. Y., was blown up at noon,
on the 3d, jtist after the wdrkmeri had left
tlie build ih2r. The i'OWfier'bouee' rMeW up
first, and the factory, containing half a
ton of dynamite, followed.
The British Government, seeing no hope
Tor the passage of .the Sugar bill, have
Pursuant to their agreement, the
union carpenters of Lawrence, Mass..,
numbering about three hnndrtd, left wori
at five c'cISck. on. the 1st, pending a set
tlement in relation to their demand for
nine hours for a day's work.
The post-office at Plainfield, N. J., was
entered by burglars, on the night of tbe
1st, and the place ransacked. The amount
of plunder secured by the robbers can
not be Piitittated; bii it 15 thdtight to b
considerable.
Rev. Richard A. O'Connor was, on the
1st, consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop
of Peterboro. Out., by Bishop Cleary of
Kingston. There were present Bishops
Duharael of Ottawa and Fabre of Mon
treal; Bishop Walsh of London, Bishop
Foley of Detroit and Mgr. Legare, of
Quebec.
Thousands of carpenters and workmen
lin3d both Broadway and Fifth avenue,
New York, on the 2d, and the work of
tearing down the hundreds of stands
from which the parades were viewed
was begun.
Charles E. Moore, of Pennsylvania,
was, oa tho 2d, appointed disbursing
clerk of the Department of Labor, vice
Stoddard, appointed disbursing clerk of
the census oSlce.
The St. Paul street railway strike ended
.i the 3d, at the company's terms.
The Meriden Malleable Iron Company,
one of tbe big concerns of Meriden, Conn.,
is financially embarrassed, owing to sev
eral recent failures of Western houses
whose notes the company hold. About
two hundred and fifty men are thrown out
of employment.
On the 3d Sir Julian Paunccfote pre
sented his credentials to President Harri
son as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from Great Britain to the
United States.
The funeral of Hon. W. H. Barnum, late
chairman of the Democratic National
committee, occurred, on the 3d, at Lime
Rock, Conn.
Four children were burned to death in
the destruction of their horn e at Abing
don, Md., on the 3d.
General Boulanger will hold a con
ference with his followers In London oa
the iethi
Prof. Harrison who was arrested an d
committed to Londonderry jail for trial
for supplying food to the besieged ten
ants of Gweedore, Ireland, was taken
into court at Oublin, on the 3d. and aftei
a hearing of the case, discharged.
Henry Cammett, of the Geological Sur
vey, has been appointed biographer of
the census.
Thbee children of a Portuguese family
named Silvey were left alone in the house
at Ashtabula, O., on the 3d. The building
took fire, and one of the children was
burned to death and the other two were
r fatally burned.
Mr. Vynkr's Minthe won the 1,000
guineas stakes for three-yesr-old fillies,
on the 3d, the last day of the first New
market (England) spring meeting.
iTicrlAEti RizzALO; one of the murderers
of Paymaster McClure, near Wilkesbarre,
Pa., will be hanged on Tuesday, June 25,
in Luzerne County; Governor Beaver
signed the death warrant on the 3d.
A carriage containing a number of
passengers was struck by a train on the
Pennsylvania railroad, at Brides burg
crossing, near Philadelphia, on the 3d.
Two persons were killed and four badly
injured.
The horses Attached to an Indianapolis
undertaker's wagon loaded with corpses
being removed from Green Lawn to
Crown Hill Cemetery, ran off and scat
tered the corpses along the streets for
half a square, prt? entlng a sickening
sight.
A dispatch from Cpe Town, Africa,
announces the death of Lord Walter
Campbell, the third Sod of the Duke of
Argyle, from a fever contracted while
traveling in South Africa.
Kern's cigar-box factory, at New Or
leans, was burned on the 3d. Loss $10,
003; no insurance.
The Dowager Empress AugnVia of Ger
many, on the 3d, presented to Chief Chap
lain Reichter a heavy gold chain to wear
on state occasions.
A destructive explosion of firedamp
occurred at the Beechwood (Pa.) colliery
on the 3d. One man was fatally injured,
and considerable damage was done to
the property.
The Cologne Glee Club presented 3,0OT
francs to the poor of Rome ca the 3d.
Suit has been instituted is the Superior
Court at Keokuk, Ia., by the Fort Madi
son Lumber Company against the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy Retlroad Com
pany for $10,000 damages arising from a
destructive fire ignited by sparks from a
passing locomotive.
Details of the defeat of the Abyssinian
army and the death of King John state"
that the Abyssinians attacked the strong
hold of the dervishes at Nelammeh on
March 10, but were repulsed with many
wounded. On March 12 the dervishes as
sumed the aggressive, and completely
routed the King's forces. Among the
large number killed were King John and
his principal generals, Ras Are and Ras
Ailm.
Secretary Windom was slightly indis
posed, on the 3 I, and, on the advice of
his physician, decided not to leave his
room;
TnE parochial residence of the Church
of the HOly Name' atChicopee, Mass., was
brokeii into, On the night of the 3d, add
all the silverware in the dining room and
$250 in money from tho library' wer
stolen.
The block-coal miner of Brazil, IntJ,,
rejected, on the 3d, by a vote of 208 to 1172
the scale of prices prepared by the oper
ators. Herr Meyer, of Berlin, the largest
ivory importer in the world, and a brother-in-law
of Carl Schiirz, died at Kiel,
Germany, on the 3d.
Mr. Conybeare, Gladstonian M. P. for
the Camborne division of Cornwall, Ire
landj has been convicted of violating the
Crimes act and sentenced to three months'
imprisonment withoiit hard labor;
Owing to the activity of the sugar hiar
ket, freight ratos on sugar from Mauri
tius to England advanced ten shillings a
ton on the 3d.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Furious forest fires are raging in North
ern Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin,
and great damage has been done.
Jl-DGB W; Fi HKMINGWAYi the newly
elected Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Arkansas, was sworn in oli lb
Oth for a term of six years.
Allib Grady, a boy of eleven years,
was run over and killed by a horse at Bir
mingham, Ala., on the 6th. He was in the
act of opening his father's stable when the
horse sprang against the door, throwing
It open and hurling the boy to the ground.
A little over 000 miles of maid tracl
were laid In the United States during th
first rotor inonths df the present year.
J. W. Harding, a slndeni e the State
Agricultural and Mechanical College iit
Kentucky, quarreled -with Wm. Bu8kr
keeper of the college dormitory, on th
th. In the fight Harding cut Bush to
piecesj death resulting. Harding is twenty-five
and Bush is seventy-eight years of
age.
The beef inspection bill, as indorsed by
the convSnrinT ihich assembled in St.
Louis in March, was dfcfctd in the Mis
souri Legislature on the 4th.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has jost
rendered a decision of interest to money
loaners. Growing corn bad been mort
R&Kedj after, coming td maturity it wai
harvested and soid Ui grain drfalefs, The
owners of the mortgage sired them tot ik4
value of the corn. The court decided that
he jrmwlnsr corn is not the corn after it
has been cribbed attd sold in Other words,
that tub mortgage will not hold and the
plaintiff Cannot rucovert
Sheppard Anderson, of Aberdeen,
Miss., who was convicted last fall of mur
der, and who was granted anew trial, was
on the 4tn acquitted.
Thb Agricultural Department at Wa"h
ington has just had completed an analysis
t bttf rtiede from the milk of cdwi fed
on cotton seed meal. The f esuit Is -very
favorable, as it is found that the batter at
tains a high melting point far superior to
that of the ordinary article.
Cincinnati capitalists have organized a
company to erect at once another large
cotton factory at Hantsvilie, Ala., with
forty thousand spindles and all necessary
looms. Among tha various fabrics to be
made, heavy duck for army tents will be
tbe chief.
The IHta. Wm. C. T. Breckinridge, of
Kentucky, has accepted an invitation to
deliver the address at tbe dedication of the
National Forefathers' Monument at Ply
mouth, Mags., August 11,
What is known as the Australian elec
tion law, with some modifications to suit
the locality, has been adopted by both
bouses of the Missouri Legislature,
ANARCHY IS NOT DEAD.
The Slumbering Monster Arouses I-ong
Enough to Promulgate an Incendiary
Screed. Hoping, Perchance, to Again
Inflame Its Io voteea to Acts of Law
lessness. Chicago, May 4. On the 30th inst the
Haymarket monument is to be unvailed,
and that the Anarchists are already pre
paring for the event is evidenced by the
issuance by some secret printing estab
lishment of an inflammatory circular,
copies of which fell into the hands of the
police yesterday. One of the circulars was
inclosed in an envelope and sent to Chief
Hubbard yesterday morning. Another
was found lying on the base of the monu
ment in Haymarket Square. It is be
lieved that many other copies of the cir
cular have been secretly circulated among
the Anarchists, who are known to bo still
loyal to the memory of Spies, Parsons
and the rest. The circular reads as foi
lows:
May 4, 1886, and November 11, VS7.
May 4, lS8(i! A peaceable meeting attacked
by 160 armed policemen acting under orders ol
a well-known bully and mill an, contrary to th
commands of the mayor of the city. An un
known hand throws a dendly snd death-dealing
missile, and in a moment the air is rent by tho
shrieks and groans ot wounded and dying men.
And this is the result of the disobedience, tho
cowardice and hatred of one man.
Citizens: Ycu are asked to commemorate
by your attendaneo at the unvailing of the
statue erectel to the memory of the policemen
who fell on that terrible night, the bravery ?),
not of the common people who had do choice
but to obey, but of the man Bonfleld, whoso
murderous act caused untold suffering. Some
of you who read this will listen, it may be, w.th
approval to the recital of the awtul scenes of
that memorable night. With vehemence and
great eloquence skillful orators will picture to
you the situation, and strong appeals will be
made to your patriotism and your prejudices.
Passion which time has cooled, will bo again
aroused, and the hated Anarchists whot yod
will be told, are entirely responsible for this
dreadful affair, will be painted as fiends in hu
man form. So have the people ever been
blinded by cunning knaves. But stop! Have
you ever given a thought to the patient suffer
ing, the cruel persecution, the'tnjust trial and
conviction and the base murder of five of the
real victims of the Haymarket t-rajjedy? Or to
the undeserved punishment; compared with
which death would bo merciful, ttj the other
threeT Have you forgotten the self-sacrib'ce
and grandeur of spirit and bearing of the man
who voluntarily surrendered himself to share
the fate of bis comrades? Do guilty men thus
voluntarily return to meet certain death?
Ahl friends, asli yourselves these questions
in sober earnestness, and then listen without a
blush of shame, if you can, to your orators as
they tell you this U the freest country on the
face ot the earth. This kind of patriot sm. like
the song of the siren, puts you to sleep whilst
foil drift ori to certain slavery. You remember
the trial Of otlf friends? HOw ttie public pros
ecutor, States-Attorney Grinned,- pursued our
friends with all the malevolence of a llend,
How he adopted every device known to cow
ards and knaves intimidation, bribery jury
packing and force to carry out the will of the
money-power, whoso willing tool ho was.
There are many Incidents connected with tho
trial which still remain to be told. The time
will come for the ampVe justification of our
comrades; bnt it is not quite yet, and you who
pay your tribute to brave men, and exult in
the triumph of law, consider for a moment at
what a fearful price that triumph was secured.
When you assemble on the thirteenth of May,
think also of the eleventh of November. See
the four martyrs to free speech and liberty, as
they stand transfigured on the dreadful scaf
fold. See the proud, triumphant look which
lights their faces! Hear the voices of Fischer
and Engle exultingly shout for the cause they
loed dearer than life I Hearken to the
warning and prophetic voice of Spies as he
foretells tho time when their silence will gpeaK
in thunder tones! Listen aatn to the last ap
peal of the noble Parsons choked la Its Very
utterance.
While "law and order" reisned supreme with
in the jail 011 that sad November morning, with'
out the walls was beins enacted another scone.
At the very moment when the devoted husband
and father was bein prepared for eternity, the
faithful wife with her two children was seckin
admission (granted to her the night before) to
obtain one last word and embrace. Made des
perate by the insults of the uniformed ruflbins
Who surrounded her, sfc-e ond her children were
hurried away to the police station, and there
Of shame on American manhood by command
of Captain Bcbauck, whom politicians have re
cently returned to power, the almost heart
broken woman and the two children were
stripped stark naked. Thts at the very moment
the husband and father was gi Vinf? up his life, a
willing sacrilice to his convictions.
On the fourth of May, 1880, free speech was
dealt a stunning blow. On the eleventh of No
vember, 1S87, free speech was killed outright
choked in the utterance of one of its noblest
champions and every sentiment of decency
was outraged in the brutal treatment of Mrs.
Parsons.
On the monument at the Haymarket should
be Inscribed In letters of tire these words:
"Erected to commemorate the strangling of
tree speech and the shame of an enslaved peo
ple." Chief Hubbard was interviewed con
cerning the circular late yesterday after
noon. Ho said he scarcely thought it
possible that the Anarchists will attempt
an outbreak on the day the statue is un
vailed. He says every precaution will be
taken, however, to secure the safety of
life and property upon that day.
WENT OVER THE FALLS.
.i
Jacob KleInff Found L.lfe Anf Tiling
Itut a Ttlesstngr ami Departed Via the
Oreat Niagnra Falls Koute.
Niagara Falls, N. Yi, May 3. Last
night about eiht o'clock, as J. L. Ryan
and wife, of Holley, N. Y., were standing
on the sidewalk near the American end
of the Goat Island bridge, they saw a man
leap from tho upper sido of the bridge
into the river. The lady screamed and
attracted the attention of Samuel Smith,
of the reservation police, who had
Stepped to the bridge railing and saw
distinctly a man floating in the current
below.- He was out of reach and soon
was swept over the brink near l'rospect
Point. Tbe policfimrm found on the
bridge, near tbe spot where1 the man was
seen to jump, a derby hat-containing tho
label oi W afford & Faul, 271 Main street,
Buffalo, N. Y., a leather pocket-book
Containing a key-ring and Music Hall
ticket 2.2W, bearing tbe name of Jaccb
Blessing, No. 712 Seneca street, Buffalo.
Jacob Blessiug was a German black
SlnitH who had been in this country about
five years and had no relatives in Buffalo
nor, it is believed, in this country. lie
fell in love with a girl who Jilted him
about f year ago, and since thou his
friends SAf ho ; hea subject to fits of
meicholy and periodic sprees.
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lureiiou f ol.
New York, May 4. All the iLlcvos who
have been locked up iu prison for the
pa.st three or four days regained their
Jiberty Thursday. They all felt sore at
having been locked dp during the Centen
nial celebration. Ban! 1'erry, alias
"Wooster Sam," a professional thief, re
marked to Thos. Russell, known as
"Lively," while standing in line waiting
for their turn to be discharged at Jeffer
son Marfcet Court: "We don't know what
we missed. It will be a long time beforo
there'll be another centennial."
Another thief said, with a lautrh: "The
cops can't put ua down for any thing that
happened for the past few days. We can
prove an alibL"
1 .
lestraittv riM-Damp Exploloo.
rtrrtsviLLZ, Pa., May 4.-A destructive
gas explosion occurred at the Beechwood
colliery yesterday. Th fire bobs neg
lected to put up "the eautwo boaru at
the entrance of in abandoned gangway la
which gas had accumulated.
Nolan, who was making repairs, know ng
That the fire-boss bad passed, and seeing
no danger sljrnal nr. entered the Kngw.jr
wmi a nk.-d lamp. The flame of the
lamp eaused a terrible explosion. Nolan
was blown against the rooks and sus
tained fatal injuries. Two miners named
Lewis and Sweeny were draped out of
the shaft unconscious, but were uot $eri
oubly injured.
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
A. S. Oclrs, manager of the Chattanooga
(Tenn.) Daily Times, whila going to his
office, a few nights ago, was "held up"
and robbed on a frequented street. Two
men held pistols to his head and went
through his pockets. They left his watch,
missed some money and received for their
trouble only a few pocket pieces whose
intrinsic value was small.
Eli Mullen, the old gentleman whoso
wife turned up so unexpectedly at Bir
mingham, Ala., not long ago, has found
a copy of the decree of divorce which he
claimed to have. The divorce was grant
ed in Arkansas some years ago.. He will
provide for the old lady, but she can give
him no trouble now, and he will live ou
with his second wife.
Owing to the very low water ia the
Mississippi, which prevents natural ir
rigation, aud the low price of the com
modity in the market, with a prospect of
not being able to compete with the mar
kets of China and Japan, some sixty
thousand acres of riee iu the parishes of
St. John, St. James and St- Charles, La.,
have been abandoned for this season.
A very peculiar case of hydrophobia
has been brought to light in Cumberland
County, Ky." Robert Gentry, an old and
respected citinen of that county, was two
years ago bitten by a rabid dog. lie
treated the wound with a madstoue and
thought he was well. A few days ago ha
felt an attack coming on Lira, and going
to the house secured a log chain and fast
ening the ohain to a tree In his woods,
locked himself to the chain and threw
the key away. He was found a short
time afterward by some friends and
taken home after some trouble. He has
to be haudcuffed all the time on account
of his ravings and his family are not al
lowed in his room.
Louis Morton killed his sweetheart,
Lizzie Hayes, at Earlington, Ky., through
jealousy aroused at her conduct at a ball
in dancing with a man whom Morton die
liked. G. A. Llgon, a well-to-do farmer, com
mitted suicide, recently, near Henderson,
Ky., by taking a large dose of laudanum.
No cause is assigned. He left five chil
dren. McLemore & Bros.' grist mill at Colum
bia, Tenn., burned a few days ago. Ths
mill plant was completely destroyed.
Loss, $30,000; insurance, $10,000.
Ben Addison, a well-known young man
who ran a billiard-room in the Palace
Royal Hotel block, in Birmingham, Ala.,
was arrested recently, charged with at
tempting to set fire to tho buildiug.
The water-tank of the United States
Rolling-Stook Company of Florence,
Ala., burst recently, causing a tc-. rifio ex
plosion, and, in all probability, fatally
injured Messrs. Scoville and Lee, who
were on top of it when it bursted.
The Southern Manufacturers' Associa
tion was organized recently, with head
quarters at Augusta. They elected II. 11.
Hickman. president, and five vice-presidents.
Representatives from all the cot
ton States were present.
The Southern Yellow Pine Lumber As
sociation met at the Exchange Hotel in
Montgomery, Ala.,' a few days ago. A
committee was appointed to confer with
the railroads with a view of adopting a
scale of standard weights for different
grades of lumber.
At New Orleans tlie jury in the case of
Dr. Etienne Deschamps, charged with the
murder of Juliet Deitsche, aged twelve
years, returned a verdict of guilty. The
prisoner was remanded for sentence
Judge Marr will sentence him to be
hanged at such time as tho Governor may
direct.
Alfred McDowell, livlncr near Marlon,
Ky., a few nights ago was tken from his
house by marked men nnd terribly beaten.
He had previously received a notice to
leave tho country, but refused to do so.
A dispute with a neighbor is said to be
the origin of tho trouble
A remarkable death occurred nt Jasper,
Walker County, Ala., several days ago,
durtug a severe thunder-shower. Young
Frank Hudd, the local telegraph operator,
was sitting at his desk when.tho lightning
struck his wires, and the current turning
down the wires passed through his body.
He fell forward on the floor and expired
in a few moments.
The mono ment to bo erected over tho
graves of the Confederate dead in Mount
Olivet'CemoWy, Nashville, Tenn., will be
unvailed an the IGih Inst. Rev. David C.
Kelley, D. D., aiid Elder R. L. Caw will
open the exercises of the, day with prayer.
Hon. XV. C. P. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
will deliver th'e oration, and Rev. C. I,
Elliott, D. I)., will pronounce the bonodie.
tion. Members of all the Confederate
bivouacs in tho State will take part in the
ceremonies.
The Georgia Alliance has contracted
with mills for 2.000,000 yards of cotton
bagging to be delivered tlw 1st of August.
The bagging is to bo not less than thirty
seven inches wide, and to averace twelve
ounces to the yard. The manufacturers
agree to take the cotton so covered at ten
cents additional per 100 pounds to cover
the loss in weight in tight covering. Tho
bagging will be made by the Lane Mills,
New Orleans, and the West Point Mills,
Georgia.
John O. Nelmns, tho husband of six liv
ing wives, was recently convicted of big
amy at Atlanta, Oa. It was the work of
only a few minutes to obtain a jury in his
case. Three wi ves appeared to con Trout
him as witnesses, but the State, nft-r ex
amining the father of one and the officiat
ing officer at the inatriage of another,
rested their case without argument of
counsel' on eithor side. Tho cane wan
submitted to the jury, which, after remain
ing out but frve minute, returned a ver
dict of jruilty. 'Hie full penally of the
law was imposed by tho judo In bis sen
tence, four years at hard labor in the
penitenliary.
Warsaw, in the eastern part of North
Carolina, was struck by a terrific ryclon
a few mornings ago. Hail fell with surlj
rapidity and violence as to He eight
inches deep in thirty-six seconds. Many
small houses were blown away almost
bodily.. Large hou.-.es were torn up so
that they are not habitable. Tho sem
inary building was split o-pen and neaily
destroyed. The Presbyterian Church wus
totally-demolished, not a ot timber
being left that may be used in rebuilding.
A Florence (Ala.) dispatch says that a
full force of men has been put to work In
every department of the Cincinnati, At
lauta & Alabama railroad. Tho manage
ment will insh the enterprise rapidly,
taking ad vantage of the fine weathr. It
is expected that the road will be in opera
tion by fall.
The Lookout.Roliing Mill Company of
Chattanowra, Te.n., a few days ago, dis
charged all of their white workmen and
employed I V) negroes, who are to be sub
stituted in the mill- The change is oa ac
count of the demands of the Amalgamat
ed Iron Workers.
Judge R. M- Mason died at his home,
near Hprin? Crez-k, Tenn., a few evening!
asro, aged teventy-six years.
T. S. Bryson was killed at Dayton,
Tenn. by A. S. Griffith, the newly-elected
city marshal, a few days ago. Griffith
tnjk hold of Bryson, who was after money
to pay a oe, and was pushed away.
Griffith then eht Bryson twice in the lelt
bjp and through the heart.
Will Read was placed in jail, under 5.V
bond, at Lo'jUville, Ky., recently, fot
contempt ot court, ia failing to appear ai
a witness.
A few mornings since f.re was dicovered
in the roof of a dwelling owned by Tho. am
Boper, at Henderson, Ky. The tiro gain J
such head way before it coul.1 be gotti-a
under control that the buildiug was cini
pletely destroyed. Loss, $.3,00); insure J
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